Miyoko Sakashita, oceans program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, wrote that “the frightening footage of the Gulf of Mexico is showing the world that offshore drilling is dirty and dangerous.” At least five workers were killed, two others missing and six injured in a fire at an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, Mexicos state-owned. It was unclear how much environmental damage the gas leak and oceanic fireball had caused. The company said it had brought the gas leak under control about five hours later.īut the accident gave rise to the strange sight of roiling balls of flame boiling up from below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. local time and was completely extinguished by 10:30 a.m., according to Mexico's state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, also known as Pemex. The leak near dawn Friday occurred about 150 yards (meters) from a drilling platform. The fire raged in the Ku Maloob Zaap oil field, located near the southern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, around 5:15 a.m. Pemex, as the company is known, said nobody was injured in the incident in the offshore Ku-Maloob-Zaap field. Rather, a sequence of failures involving a number of different parties led to the explosion and fire which. Petroleos Mexicanos said it had dispatched fire control boats to pump more water over the flames. No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo and on the southeast by Cuba.

And with the Gulf of Mexico, that problem is quite. MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending flames boiling to the surface in the Gulf waters. The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de Mxico) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. The Gulf Of Mexico Was On Fire A gas leak from an underwater pipeline saw the ocean spark alight.

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